01556cam a22002651 4500 ca 05001761 DLC 20260227111041.0 cr ||||||||||| 781018s1841 nyua 000 0 eng ca 05001761 DLC DLC DLC GV1763 .B18 The Ball-room instructer [sic]; containing a complete description of cotillons and other popular dances, with illustrations. Ball-room instructer Ball-room instructor New York, Huestis & Craft, 1841. 46 p. incl. front., illus. 13 cm. Source: Source unknown. DLC This manual, small enough to fit into a pocket, declares that it contains "all the information which is interesting to the world of dancing" [p. 5]. In fact, like many nineteenth-century dance manuals, the text is heavily borrowed from numerous sources and compiled by a publisher. Its format is common for this type of manual. It begins with a discussion on etiquette followed by a description of quadrilles--popular group dances performed by four couples facing in a square. Although the waltz was a staple of the mid-nineteenth-century ballroom, it is not discussed in this manual. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as facsimile page images and full text. Ballroom dancing Handbooks, manuals, etc. Dance Instruction and Technical Manuals. musdi 225 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musdi.225 s 13358 13358